Today the 15 December 2012 the Egyptian president has asked the population to go to the polling stations to vote on the new constitution. The constitution has been drafted by a constitutional committee, which was conceived by the people’s assembly 7 June 2012. This was the second constitutional assembly conceived by the Egyptian parliament as the first CA was dissolved after it was criticised of being biased towards the Islamist actors in the Egyptian society.

The Danish Minister for Development Cooperation stressed the need to look for “best fit” rather than pursue a standard model of democracy, when he 28 November met with international experts and practitioners to discuss democracy support.

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The vision of the Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy is to contribute to the development of well-functioning democratic political parties, multi-party systems and other institutions as central stakeholders in the democratic culture of selected developing countries.